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When I was a grad student at Penn in the mid-80′s, there was a racial uproar on campus involving a white faculty member supposedly making inappropriate remarks to a black student. While it started with student protests, eventually black faculty members entered the fray, and I remember a teacher by the name of Houston Baker leading the charge.

Flash forward to the Duke rape case, and I’m watching a piece on TV about it. They’re interviewing a black faculty member at Duke who’s criticizing Duke University and it’s lacrosse team and who is it? None other than…Houston Baker!

Wonder what this guy has to say now? I’m sure he still thinks the Duke players are guilty anyway.

I didn’t think it was possible to have a “low-rent” version of Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, but that’s Houston Baker.

This is where the nice innocent young men hired a whore for their entertainment, but being the respectable young lads that they are, they had the decency and class, not to rape the whore.

I have to agree. All evidence that we have certainly points to the innocence of the lacrosse players and malfeasance on the part of Nifong and Duke University in order to score political points. The team clearly had less than outstanding behavior on its mind by going to such a party, though. Undeserved though it may be, they still opened themselves to the possibility of this nightmare by choosing to misbehave in the first place.

This whole sad saga makes me feel ill. Most (if not all) of us suffered occasional lapses of judgment and morality at that age. Unlike those kids at Duke, most of us were fortunate enough not to suffer those lapses in the presence of an extortionist prostitute in a town with a Machiavellian district attorney willing to do ANYTHING to pander to the minority base whose support he so desperately needed for re-election.

Yes, there is some prosection required here. But it should be Nifong and the semen-dump wearing the orange jumpsuits in front of a judge.

Just when I think I’ve seen the low point in ethics, folks like those two come along and shake my faith in humanity further. Well done, Nifong! We lawyers needed more reasons for self-loathing and public mistrust.

And, Mary Katharine, your reporting continues to be stellar. Unlike Allah, I’ll take 15 seconds of your dead air any time. It still beats 15 seconds of CNN broadcasting.

This whole sad saga makes me feel ill. Most (if not all) of us suffered occasional lapses of judgment and morality at that age. Unlike those kids at Duke, most of us were fortunate enough not to suffer those lapses in the presence of an extortionist prostitute in a town with a Machiavellian district attorney willing to do ANYTHING to pander to the minority base whose support he so desperately needed for re-election.

Kids? Extortionist prostitute? Give me a break. Children do not hire whores to dance for them. Children do not even hire clowns. Adults hire entertainers. These adults hired a whore. They invited her in to their house. The whore did not knock on their door like a vacuum salesman and offer talk his way inside. I’ll be surprised if this is the first time “these children” invited a whore to perform.

Sure Nifong is an idiot. He wanted to use the whore for his benefit. The kiddies wanted to use the whore for their benefit also. The whore? She probably just wanted to turn tricks. Looks like they all just deserved each other.

Actually, Mark, I don’t think that anybody is trying to defend the behavior of people who hire exotic dancers or the behavior of the exotic dancers either.

The issue is PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. The complaint is that the prosecutor is VIOLATING the civil rights of 3 men accused of a crime, and that this violation is deliberate because his only goal is securing scalps for his trophy case.

And it is interesting to note that the famous ACLU, which rushes to the courthouse to sue at the drop of a hat if a religious symbol is somehow evoked in the public square, is COMPLETELY ABSENT WHEN THE MOST IMPORTANT CIVIL RIGHT, the one where a person accused GETS A FAIR TRIAL is willfully RAPED by a CORRUPT PUBLIC OFFICIAL interested only in advancing his career over the BODIES OF 3 WHITE MEN.

But don’t seem to understand this, do you? You seem to think that is is ONLY about defending whore mongers for whore mongering. Guess again.

Actually, Mark, I don’t think that anybody is trying to defend the behavior of people who hire exotic dancers or the behavior of the exotic dancers either.

Well then Sailor Dave is then making excuses up for them, if not as you say defending them, by saying everyone dose it, so what’s the big deal?

Most (if not all) of us suffered occasional lapses of judgment and morality at that age.

George then asked:

But don’t seem to understand this, do you? You seem to think that is ONLY about defending whore mongers for whore mongering. Guess again.

Nifong is an idiot. I’ll say it for the second time. Yes the rape charges were a farce. Yes Nifong was playing to the African rooted folks in his village. And yes, this whole affair could of been avoided if the children were doing their homework instead of whore mongering.

I think that Mary’s video would of been more complete if she would of been more accurate about what did and did not happen in the house. The children were not only playing with matches, they ordered out for gasoline.

Not that I would personally do it myself, but seriously … is hiring a stripper illegal in that state? I doubt it. Whatever your moral distaste for what the boys did (and I personally have a few) they did nothing illegal, and do no deserve to be publically labled as rapists. This should have gone no further than their parents and the school.

Suspensions possibly, and parents dealing out some hard discipline. … but of course the media and the left are all about the super nanny government sticking its nose everywhere.

YAY FOR BIG BROTHER! I just love the so-called “liberty” the left is selling these days.